The Family Support Act allows states to reimburse child care costs up to the 75th percentile of local market price for child care. States must carry out surveys to estimate these 75th percentiles. This estimation problem raises two major statistical issues: (1) picking a sample design that will...

Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Program Impact Estimation with Binary Outcome Variables: Monte Carlo Results for Alternative Estimators and Empirical Examples -- Chapter 3 Stochastic Frontier Models with Bounded Inefficiency -- Chapter 4 Estimating Consumer Surplus in eBay Computer Monitor...